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I'm on protonvpn, with the CLI scripts because their 'official' driver requires systemd. So I can change my IP easily. I have an alias set up to allow disconnection, and another allowing connection that takes one country code argument. If you change ip, stop the page that's not coming in & reload it - Voilą! It's there. No delays.
EDIT: Ergo, that proves cloudfare is causing it!
Last edited by business_kid; 05-18-2024 at 11:40 AM.
I also feel very frustrated by the new Cloudflare thing.
However, I also know that there are many other sites using Cloudflare that do not resort to this annoying behavior, so maybe an adjustment would be all that is needed.
But please stop with that authentication/captcha thing!!
That is not LQ, that is Clownfaire itself. Personally I would avoid using the service and do the caching myself on my server, but that may not be an option for LQ. (I mean, unless we all want to start paying for access... And many of us CAN'T!)
I have always been able to get by without trusting cloudflare in noscript. Things changed yesterday.
So on Friday I didn't need to trust cloudflare now I do. What changed?
I hope you are not waiting for Clownfaire to tell us. They rarely admit to errors, and when they do you never get the entire story. (They are not as terrible as some, but nowhere near transparent either! )
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I get the cloudflare screen and fairly quickly, an "authorisation". Does this mean it's doing a quick search of my system? I hope not!
What I've also noticed since the appearance of cloudflare, is that everything on the lq site takes much longer to load.
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Confirming that there is an ongoing network attack aimed at the site. FWIW, without Cloudflare the site would have been 100% unavailable for the entire duration, vs slow or sometimes not available. We're continuing to investigate.
It is working, at least from my end. Friday & Saturday the site was mostly unreachable, and when it was reachable, it was too unresponsive to use. Now, I hate Cuckflare with words that are unprintable here, but, because of the way the modern internet is, it's them or nothing. They are one of the four gatekeepers of the internet - the others being Spamhaus, Apple, and Google. These four, often based on politics, determine who can access what and if. But that is a topic for another place. At least I know what's going on now. I figured it seemed a bit ddos-y as of late.
Confirming that there is an ongoing network attack aimed at the site. FWIW, without Cloudflare the site would have been 100% unavailable for the entire duration, vs slow or sometimes not available. We're continuing to investigate.
--jeremy
I knew it. Fortunately, Cloudflare's "mitigation" is much less annoying today.
Confirming that there is an ongoing network attack aimed at the site. FWIW, without Cloudflare the site would have been 100% unavailable for the entire duration, vs slow or sometimes not available. We're continuing to investigate.
--jeremy
If a counterattack is legal and justified, I am willing to help.
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